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The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New York's Little Italy, apprenticed to a shoemaker, leaving a bereft Enza behind. But when her own family faces disaster, she, too, is forced to emigrate to America. Though destiny will reunite the star-crossed lovers, it will, just as abruptly, separate them once again—sending Ciro off to serve in World War I, while Enza is drawn into the glamorous world of the opera . . . and into the life of the international singing sensation Enrico Caruso. Still, Enza and Ciro have been touched by fate—and, ultimately, the power of their love will change their lives forever.

A riveting historical epic of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny, inspired by the author's own family history, The Shoemaker's Wife is the novel Adriana Trigiani was born to write.

The Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, has been making exquisite wedding shoes since 1903 but now teeters on the brink of financial collapse. To...

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THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE Despite its girth, Trigiani's latest saga of Italian life lies flat on the page.A portrait of early 20th-century Italian immigration, the story starts with two children in the Italian Alps. In one mountain village, serious, hardworking Enza lives with her large family; in another, rascal Ciro and his brother Eduardo are orphans at the convent. When 16-year-old Ciro travels to Enza's village to dig

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Review: The Shoemaker's Wife At the turn of the century in the Italian Alps, young brothers Ciro and Eduardo Lazzari are taken in by a group of benevolent nuns after the boys' mentally unstable mother is unable to care for them. In a village not far away, Enza Ravanelli lives a poor but contented life, until the death of her infant sister Stella plunges the family into grief. When Ciro is sent to dig a grave for Stella, he is ...

The Shoemaker's Wife. Such a wonderful book. A true love story over the years. Very well written. It brought tears to my eyes at certain stages. Having loved and lost loved ones, being away from my homeland, I could relate to Enza and Ciro's life. The old world charm never dies!

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The Shoemakers wife This was a book I can only rate on the service which is always excellent and the book was priced below the store price

THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE Despite its girth, Trigiani's latest saga of Italian life lies flat on the page.A portrait of early 20th-century Italian immigration, the story starts with two children in the Italian Alps. In one mountain village, serious, hardworking Enza lives with her large family; in another, rascal Ciro and his brother Eduardo are orphans at the convent. When 16-year-old Ciro travels to Enza's village to dig

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife At the turn of the century in the Italian Alps, young brothers Ciro and Eduardo Lazzari are taken in by a group of benevolent nuns after the boys' mentally unstable mother is unable to care for them. In a village not far away, Enza Ravanelli lives a poor but contented life, until the death of her infant sister Stella plunges the family into grief. When Ciro is sent to dig a grave for Stella, he is ...

The Shoemaker's Wife. Such a wonderful book. A true love story over the years. Very well written. It brought tears to my eyes at certain stages. Having loved and lost loved ones, being away from my homeland, I could relate to Enza and Ciro's life. The old world charm never dies!

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife Meh. Overly descriptive, is that a bad thing? Sometimes. Sometimes it is so oppressive that you just breeze over the chapter. Sometimes it's kind of lovely. Despite a book where SO MUCH happens, not ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife As if I did not already love Adriana's beautiful writing, she comes up with this breathtaking Historical Fiction novel that made my heart leap from the very first time I seen it! Cover, title ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife What a wonderful book starting in Italy going to New Jersey then New York City most of it taking place before I was born.How tough times were and rent was $1.00 a month can't even by a loaf of bread ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel First off, Adriana Trigiani is one of those authors that I have heard tons about. I've heard tons and tons of really good things about her but I haven't picked up any of her very successful books ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife I really wanted to like this book, especially since I'm an avid reader of historical fiction and a friend recommended it. A love story that travels from the Italian Alps across the Atlantic to New ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife If there's one book that should be on your summer reading list, it's The Shoemaker's Wife. It isn't just a book; it's an experience. It's a slow, beautiful, compelling story with which you can't help ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife Read this if you need a good cry and like typical women's romance fiction. It is a sweet evolving love story with predictable outcomes that are laden with sadness. I listened to the audio version with ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife One word summary of this book: HELLO! Seriously, The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani just seriously took every one of my expectations of Adriana (from reading previous novels of hers) and slapped ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife I've been a fan of Trigiani since I read Big Stone Gap. I waited eagerly for this book, and downloaded it the minute it was available on Kindle. And I was disappointed. I thought the writing in the ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife This book was written in such a fashion, it read like a movie. The description used to illustrate every movement allowed the movie to continue to play throughout my mind on every page. I fell in love ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife This was a recent choice by one of the book clubs I belong to and when I heard it was the choice, I was less than thrilled. "Oh, man," I thought. "Not ANOTHER star-crossed lovers book set during the ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife The author, clearly, did her research before writing this book; and she put every tidbit of research into the novel. It was very descriptive, even when a description was not necessary. There were so ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife The first part of this story was very good, but it lost steam about halfway through. At first, I enjoyed Trigiani's many descriptions of food, architecture, and scenery. They invoked in me an ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife My first thought when I started this book was TOO MANY WORDS. My last thought was finally, the last 50 pages written like I think she should have written the book: no more over-written landscape ...

Review: The Shoemaker's Wife Have you ever tried to read a 500 page book on your iPhone? My thumb is so tired from swiping, that my crankiness, more than anything, probably contributes to the rating of this book. Due to the above ...

The Shoemaker's Wife Italian teenagers Ciro Lazzari and Enza Ravanelli feel an instant romantic connection when they first meet in the Alps in 1908, but their budding relationship is interrupted when Ciro must quickly

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